cardialgia
Americannoun
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obsolete pain in or near the heart
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a technical name for heartburn
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Heart′burn, a burning, acrid feeling, said to be due to the irritation of the upper end of the stomach by the fumes of its acrid contents: cardialgia: Heart′burning, discontent: secret enmity.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The root yields a juice which is employed in skin diseases, in abscess, acid in cardialgia.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
When the aliment has had time to ferment, and become acid, it produces cardialgia, or heart-burn.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
It is distinguished from apepsia and cardialgia by there being nothing ejected from the stomach by the retrograde motions of it, or of the œsophagus.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Rather less; distinct local uneasiness—less disposition to drowsiness; but decidedly more troubled with cardialgia, and eructations.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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